Julia (2008)

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Movie
German title Julia
Original title Julia
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Erick Zonca
script Erick Zonca,
Aude Py
production Bertrand Faivre ,
François Marquis
camera Yorick Le Saux
cut Philippe Kotlarski
occupation

Julia is a French thriller from the year 2008 . Directed by Erick Zonca , who also wrote the script.

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Julia often celebrates at parties, drinks a lot and often changes partners. She is friends with Mitch, who also had a drinking problem. He takes care of her as best he can. One day Julia attends an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where she befriends Elena, who is from Mexico. Elena lost custody of her son Tom to the father of her late drug addict husband due to a mental illness. She wants to persuade Julia to kidnap her son. But Julia now forges a plan herself: she kidnaps Tom and does not shrink from violence. She finds shelter in a motel and gets in touch with Tom's grandfather, from whom she demands a two million dollar ransom. After initial problems, she increasingly wins the boy's trust. On the run from the police, she ends up in Mexico. A ransom transfer she had previously arranged at a bus station fails because Julia suspects police officers to be nearby. In Mexico she meets Diego, with whom she also spends the night. The next morning, Tom is kidnapped by Mexican gangsters with Diego's help. Julia can find Tom's whereabouts. In search of Tom, however, she shoots a messenger and is then captured herself. Finally, you Mitch, who got in touch with Tom's grandfather, brings the promised two million to Mexico. Julia, who has since developed feelings of motherhood for Tom, then hands over the entire ransom to the Mexican gangsters to save Tom. After handing over the ransom, she promises Tom to bring him to his mother.

Reviews

The Rotten Tomatoes review collection   lists 54 reviews, 74% of which have a positive tenor.

Joachim Kurz wrote on kino-zeit.de that the only remarkable thing about the film was the “leading actress, the otherwise so ethereal and graceful Tilda Swinton, who plays a woman on the edge of the gutter with a lot of courage to be ugly and exposed.” At the beginning, the film seems like a “tough study about an alcoholic”, later it develops into “fast-paced kidnapping clothes”, the plot of which becomes “more hectic, louder and more annoying” as well as “increasingly absurd”.

On February 10, 2008, Markus Zinsmeier wrote in the online edition of the newspaper Die Zeit that the “brilliant road movie” was one of the highlights of the Berlinale 2008. It looks like a remake of Gloria, the gangster's bride (1980), although Tilda Swinton mentions it denied a press conference. The main actress let "their anger, their despair, their thirst, their tiredness" feel what reminds "of the great films of John Cassavetes ". She “deserved an actor's award”.

Awards

The film took part in the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008 , where Erick Zonca was nominated for the Golden Bear . However, the award went to the Brazilian film Tropa de Elite .

backgrounds

The film was shot in Los Angeles and Mexico . Production costs were 6 million US dollar appreciated. It had its world premiere on February 9, 2008 at the Berlinale . The cinema release in Germany was on June 19, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Julia . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 266 K).
  2. ↑ Julia at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  3. ^ A film review by Joachim Kurz , accessed on July 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Film review by Markus Zinsmeier, accessed on February 11, 2008
  5. ↑ Filming locations for Julia, accessed February 11, 2008
  6. ^ Box office results for Julia, accessed on February 11, 2008
  7. ↑ Juliet's premiere dates, accessed February 11, 2008